[opendtv] Re: A Station Group with a Future
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:47:55 -0500
At 8:28 PM -0800 2/2/07, John Willkie wrote:
I heard a report on the BBC yesterday where a UCLA scientist with an
accent said that it takes more energy to process and distribute
Ethanol into fuel than it provides, and the end-game will be
third-world countries that burn off their rain forests to increase
acreage for corn and to process it into fuel. Of course, the
increased dust will heat up the upper atmosphere (since most of our
heat comes from the Sun), but make temperatures cooler near the
surface.
There are numberous scientific studies that show that it takes more
energy to produce a gallon of ethanol that it produces wehn burned in
gasoline. Here are two for starters...
http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm - this researcher claims that
it takes 131,000 BTUs to produce one gallon of ethanol, which
produces 77,000 BTUs when burned in gasoline.
Here is another:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329132436.htm
The rain forest issue is also rather clouded. It may well turn out
that turning rain forest into crop producing lands reduces CO2
emissions, as vegetative decay on the rain forest floor produces high
levels of CO2 emissions.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107047&org=NSF
http://www.environmental-expert.com/resulteacharticle4.asp?cid=6063&codi=8688
Bottom line, there is no scientific consensus on climate change. But
there is plenty of scientific evidence that the Earth goes through
climatic changes on a regular basis, typically measured in cycles
that take thousands of years.
I saw a PSA this morning that was quite scarry. It came from the ad
council and several other organizations. basically a man standing in
front of an oncoming train talking about the idea that man is
responsible for global warming and it is going to kill us all. he
steps out of the way of the train saying not to worry as hell be dead
by then. As he steps aside he reveals a child that presumably will be
run over by the train.
Reminicent of the little girl picking petals off a daisy as an atomic
bomb explodes behind her, that Johnson ran to beat Goldwater in 1964.
Propaganda is a powerful tool, and TV is the primary vehicle for its delivery.
Regards
Craig
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